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Brian Kristensen
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Sep. 14, 2004
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Doom 3

Doom 3 offers the ability to record and play back demos through the in-game console. We recorded a rather lengthy demo which takes place during and after the "Reactor Core." The demo includes open spaces with catwalks as well as narrow passageways, dark corridors and plenty of baddies for the fraggin'! Fights ranged from a single Pinky Demon, Imp or Revenant to multiple Imps, Lost Souls, Grunts and Cacodemons.

The in-game graphical settings were set to "High Quality." Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering were controlled through Windows and not from within the game. The recorded demo was played back as a time-demo which runs through the demo as fast as possible and spits out the average FPS. For each test, the time-demo was run three times and the results were averaged.

Doom 3 4x AA / 8x AF
(Show All Graphs)
1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1200
XFX GeForce 6800 GT
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra
PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT
63.4
44.8
23.9
29.4
0
(FPS)
110
 
 
1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1200
XFX GeForce 6800 GT
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra
PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT
49.5
31.3
16.3
20.7
0
(FPS)
110
 
 
1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1200
XFX GeForce 6800 GT
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra
PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT
39.9
23.5
11.9
14.4
0
(FPS)
110
 
 

While both the Radeon X800 Pro and the GeForce 6800 GT have huge performance improvements over the last generation of cards, the 6800 GT simply takes the cake playing Doom 3 up to 75% faster than the X800 Pro. Doom 3 is very playable on the 6800 GT in all of our tests, but the best performance and image quality is with a screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 with 4x AA and 8x AF.

 
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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card
Page 3: The Bundle
Page 4: Test Setup
Page 5: Benchmarks: Doom 3
Page 6: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2
Page 7: Benchmarks: Far Cry
Page 8: Benchmarks: Need for Speed Underground
Page 9: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell
Page 10: Benchmarks: Call of Duty
Page 11: Image Quality
Page 12: Overclocking
Page 13: Conclusion


8 User Comments
1 - Posted by Guest on September 15, 2004 - 1:48 pm

It'd be nice if you could include the temperature readings after the overclocking.

2 - Posted by Guest on September 16, 2004 - 4:00 pm

how about Con: poor AA & AF performance?
Or takes up 2 slots, suckin up the nearest PCI slot cuz of the mondo huge fan. Gee, the reason why the Ultra is getting creamed is the need for 2 distinct molex power connectors. Can't wait for PCIexpress.

3 - Posted by Guest on October 25, 2004 - 5:17 pm

Just bought this card, it is awesome. Runs doom 3 on ultra-high res and had 113.00 fps on the half life 2 stress test. This isn't even overclocked yet!! I highly recommend this card

4 - Posted by Guest on December 7, 2004 - 9:38 pm

hi, just thought i wud leave a comment saying how wicked this card is, i got it on Nov. 25th and i havent had one day of bad gaming.... realistic, quality gfx and you cant go wrong if you have 300 pounds... multi-display too?! mmmm

5 - Posted by Guest on December 25, 2004 - 9:24 am

I'm gonna buy him directly (I need a new PC)

6 - Posted by Guest on August 31, 2005 - 5:44 pm

I find this card in the Dual DVI version (still AGP) in one of my favorite online stores, thinking of buying it.
A tad dissapointed that it didn't overclock stable to full 6800 Ultra specs. So I'm thinking of Gainward GeForce 6800Ultra or XFX GeForce 6800Ultra instead. They cost more but not much more then more expensive 6800GT by other brands.
On the other hand, watercooling might get better OC and I want to get watercooling to keep noise levels down anyways.
Also, is it really worth 100-150$ extra to buy a Ultra instead of a GT to get full Ultra specs (or beyond) when a GT, especially clocked near Ultra speeds, performs almoust as good.
A decent graphics card and soundcard, and ofcourse the low noise watercooling, is all I miss in my comp. Currently using integrated sound and GeForce 4 MX440. Thats on a P4 Northwood "C" 3.2GHz with 2048MB primary memory.
/GW

7 - Posted by Guest on September 18, 2005 - 5:12 pm

This review was helpful. I am buying one now off of newegg.com for $290. I like that you can put it in SLI and its PCI-E. I do have a question if the DVI hookups would support 1920x1200 for my Dell 24" widescreen. My analog VGA hookup on my GeForce Fx5600 supports it, but not the DVI on it, so i was wondering if the DVI on this supports it. I dont know if 2048x1536@85Hz pertains to the DVI hookups.

8 - Posted by Guest on September 19, 2005 - 6:20 pm

lol nice try, i think ill be keeping this monitor:)But thanks i just didnt know if it was a DVI thing or just my current graphics card.

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